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About me

My wife, Mariama, and I are from Freetown, Sierra Leone. We are blessed with four lovely children - Mariama Marissa, Bella, Razzaq &Binta.

Being part of a truly global organization - the World Food Programme of the United Nations (WFP) - the world's largest humanitarian agency, with a specific requirement to be geographically mobile, has enabled me and my family to be truly global. The nomadic lifestyle is in line with our Foulah origins :-).

We are now in Dakar where I am presently serving as the Regional ICT Officer for the World Food Programme West Africa region, overseeing the ICT operations in West and Central African Country Offices.

I joined the World Food Programme in 2000 as a Telecommunication Officer in North Korea / DPRK, where WFP was providing assistance to over 7.6 million vulnerable persons. This was followed by assignments in Cambodia (a beautiful South East Asian nation), in Sri Lanka following following the South Asia tsunami disaster of December 2004 where WFP provided assistance to over 800,000 displaced persons as part of its emergency operation, and in our headquarters in Rome, Italy.

Before joining the U.N. World Food Programme, I worked for NCR as field engineer, then I moved on to Societe Internationale de Telecommunication Aeronautique (SITA),the global airline telecommunication company, before moving on to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Sierra Leone.

During my free time, prior to moving to WFP, I provided management consulting services as a freelance Information Management consultant for KPMG Peat Marwick, and served as partner and Managing Director of ADAtec, a networking and Internet start-up company.

I hold an honors degree in Electrical & Electronics from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, plus certifications from Novell (CNE), and MCP (Windows 2000 Professional) from Microsoft. I a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Network Professional Association (NPA) and the Internet Society (ISOC). I have served in various committees including the Y2K Steering Committee and Working Group for Internet Access in Sierra Leone.

You can reach me on e-mail or join my blog @ http://alphabah-net.blogger.com

10
years ago, this day (7th April), I lost a very special woman in my
life. 10 years later, I still feel the urge to connect with her. Words cannot
describe the emptiness. There’s no substitute for a mother’s unconditional
love. Neneh, we miss you. May Allah continue to bless you, and may you continue
to rest in peace.

Our daughter Fatmata (Binta) Bah is the proud recipient of the Middle School Ambassador award for 2018 for "consistently demonstrating kindness and respect for all members of the community and beyond, for representing DAA in athletics and humanitarian work, for excellence in academics, and admirable work ethic". She is considered as "motivating, gracious, ambitious, inspiring, dedicated to learning, takes pride in her work, a quiet leader who leads by example, never wanting the spotlight on herself, with the ethos of helping others over herself, gentle, kind, thoughtful, with a caring spirit...". We thank God for his blessings.